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MICHAEL HALLANAN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

HORSESHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 681,544, dated August 27, 1901. Application filed January 28, 1901. fierial No. 46,049. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MICHAEL HALLANAN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Horseshoes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

In my present invention there is embodied a novel manner of constructing the shoe at the quarters and also a novel front section, the tread of the shoe at the quarters being formed of rubber or the like on a leather base or backing in a manner to permit variation of the lines of the shoe, all as hereinafter particularly described, and defined in the claims.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a bottom View of the shoe. Fig. 2 is a top View. Fig. 3 is a front view, and Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail view showing the parts in section on line 4 4 of Fig. 1.

It is to be observed that the greatest variety in the sizes and shapes of horses hoofs is to be found at the quarters, and while the shoe at the front and the heel may be readily fitted to the hoof with approximate correctness the quarters present special difiiculties, and it often results that horseshoers impoverish the hoof at the quarters by attempting to pare the hoof to fit the shoe, owing to the difficulty of fitting the shoe to the hoof. It may be that in the same hoof one side is almost fiat at the quarter and pronounceably curved on the opposite side. I have provided for the adjustment of the shoe to the peculiar lines of the hoof as follows:

The rubber facing A forms the complete tread-surface from the heel aaround the sides a a and is secured to the leather backingB by stitching or otherwise, there being preferably an intermediate layer 9 of canvas. The front section of the tread-surface is formed by a metal segment 0, having a toe-clip c,

the ends of the segment overlapping the for= ward ends of the rubber quarters, forming a rabbet-joint b c, Fig. 3. Nail-holes c of the segment 0 are so disposed that a nail will pass through the rabbeted meeting ends of the segment and the rubber quarters. The segment 0 is formed with a rearwardly-extending arm 0, which lies flat on the outerface of the exterior layer a of-rubber, centrally thereof, and is riveted, as at 0 0 Within the lines of the rubber quarters a a the leather backing B and canvas 6 are cut away at d d, leaving only the layer of rubber. YVith this construction the shoe may be expanded or contracted at either or both sides to bring the shoe at the quarters into con formity with the lines of the hoof.

In order to secure the quarters to the hoof, the rubber is provided with tubular nail-receivers F, which at their inner ends preferably do not extend through the rubber, and at the outer ends the enlarged head f is countersunk or counterbored to accommodate the nail-head. The head is further undercut or rentrant on its lower side, as at f. Thus when the nail is driven it will force the receiver F inward a short distance, so as to take a bearing at its front end against the more rigid canvas and leather, and the under side of the head will crowd the adjacent rubber, to the end that strain on the nail by side slipping, which is the main strain on the shoe, will be resisted by the receiver F surrounding the nail as a sleeve.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A horseshoe having a rubber tread portion at the quarters, and a backing on which the quarters are mounted, the said backing having decreased strength at the quarters.

2. A horseshoe in which is comprised a backing and a rubber face or tread portion and tubular nail-receivers in the rubber, said receivers terminating in the rubber short of the backing, the heads of the nail-receivers being formed with countersunk outer sur faces and undercut on the under side.

3. Afoot-covering for horses, the same hav ing a leather backing and a facing of rubber,

the backing being open at the quarters, and the said open portion being covered by the rubber facing.

4. A foot-covering forhorses, the same having a backing of leather weakened at the quarters to permit lateral expansion and contraction, and a facing of rubber carried by the said backing.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of 10 two subscribing witnesses.

MICHAEL IIALLANAN.

\Vitnesses:

.T. L. MCAULIFFE,

EVERARD BOLTON MARSHALL. 

